An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Joe Steeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (PT) [OT] Online programming contest at TCE Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:44:53 +0530 (IST) Size: 4328 Url: http://ganesh.iwpcp.com/pipermail/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org/attachments/20040302/4c7848db/attachment.eml From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 5 22:51:54 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dinkar Mohana Pai) Date: Fri Mar 5 22:52:05 2004 Subject: [Mailinglist] Wake Up , ILUG Cochin !!! In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello All Its quite disappointing that theres not a good response regarding the plan of Linux Expo even after the special meeting . One week is over and there is (almost) no response at all :( Regarding the meeting day It is true that sunday has got advantage as well as disadvantage . Thats a good point to argue . I mean sunday is not a workin day , so chances r there for more people to come . But on the other hand people r gettin only one day to spend with the family , attend various functions etc , So why not all suggesting another day ? We can go for the day where max people can come . Regarding the 'idle' status of mailing list Whenever there is a distro war , people (no 1 example - myself !!) start sending mails , things will get heated up , whenever there is some issue regarding the name of our group , whenever someone post something that is not related to linux , people argue a lot in the mailing list , we will get 10-20 mails a day !! We need something to argue to make the list active LOL Now why not making the mailing list active for some good reasons ? There may be about 200 people ( or more ) in ilug as members . Does it mean that the benefits of open source / linux / free software etc should not reach out of the ilug ? If we are not doing anything to spread the advantages / benefits of using open source / linux / free software etc among the public , it is equivalent to encouraging non-free softwares . It is our duty to make the public aware of the good things . It is our duty to make them aware of the dangers behind non-free softwares . In my opinion we should move towards a free-world and not just a free-ilug And people not located in cochin or even not in Kerala , u can also help the ilug-cochin . You can suggest a lot , there may be people experienced in conducting such things , there may be people well experienced in lot linux applications . When you visit cochin you can contact ilug , you can give valuable suggestions and you can discuss things with people out here . All can work together to make the Linux expo a reality . Of course nobody can dedicate all their time to such things . But we can make some teams and within the team we can make flexible arrangement for timings etc . The main points discussed / decided were 1. Fund - money can buy most of the things ;) 2. Location - whether to conduct expo along with IT expo or not 3. People - Setting up teams at various levels 4. Target - What should be included etc There are lot other points which we can suggest and we can go ahead with the nice ideas . We can also contact other ilugs / similar groups . There is nothing wrong in that . They may be able to help us . I think we can contact people like Shanu ( who is active in conducting such things in B'lore ) . The main thing behind targeting the common man ( in my opinion ) is that they are not aware of things available in linux / open source . They don't know that ( almost ) all the applications we are running using non-free softwares can be run in linux too ( of course there are exceptions ) Like they don't know that there is a nice office package that will do everything as M$ office and it is FREE . They don't know that there is free chat client that support yahoo , msn , icq , aol that also at a time . So it will be a great thing to make them all aware . I am sure that more and more people will move towards a gnu/linux world after the expo . More pcs will run on linux . ILUG Cochin , wake up , act now . Do something great for the people around us . Help them to get the best things in life for FREE . Make the mailing list active . ( sorry for all typos and grammar mistakes ) Best Regards Din. .. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
